The cycling industry can be a tough place to be a woman – with 71% of women considering leaving the industry, including seasoned veterans. 

Women in sports photography hardly have it any better, with one study finding that women make up just 37% of the sports photography field. 

Peak Design and The Roam Collective are seeking to change this via their recently announced Roam Media Core Scholarship for women in sports photography, videography and writing.

Peak Design is a “carry solutions” brand, creating tote bags, camera bags, phone-to-bike mounts and more while maintaining a 100% employee-owned business structure. 

The Roam Collective is a nonprofit organization that aims to elevate representation in mountain biking by supporting inclusive programming and partnerships, such as the Roam Fest, a femme mountain biking festival for women, genderqueer femme folks and non-traditional riders held each year in September in Fruita, Colorado. 

The pair have partnered up to support the scholarship for up-and-coming femme photographers and videographers, which offers $50,000 in monetary support along with facilitating industry connections, assisting with portfolio buildings and revealing the ‘unwritten rules’ of the sports content industry that often take years to learn and discover. 

“We are stoked to be launching the long-awaited Roam Media Core Scholarship. Particularly exciting is the opportunity this program will provide for networking, mentorship, and collaboration, both amongst the creatives, as well as with our brand partners,” shares Sami Ryan, Director of Partnerships of Roam Events. “By bringing together femme creatives through this scholarship program, the intention is to build an ongoing supportive community where they can learn from each other, share experiences, and build valuable connections that can benefit them throughout their careers.”

Those who already possess strong technical skill sets and are looking to break into the larger sports creative industry are encouraged to apply.

The scholarship will be extended to five femme creatives, with multiple of those spots reserved for BIPOC photographers, videographers and writers.

The up-and-coming creatives will be paired with professional mentors in the industry who will provide virtual workshops and in-person sessions at the 2024 Roam Fest.  

Mentors include industry veterans such as Anne Keller, Emily Sierra, Heather Young, Leslie Kehmeier and Robin O’Neill. 

Applicants to the scholarship must live in the U.S. and be able to travel to and from the 2024 Roam Fest in Fruita, Colorado on September 20-22. Scholarship applications are now open through May 15, 2024, with finalist interviews taking place May 20-24 and winners notified and announced on May 28. Those interested can apply here. 

Marc Hom’s retrospective exhibition at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown includes a trove of masterfully achieved portraits featuring Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, and many others

An outdoor portion of the exhibition features 28 eleven-foot-high studio portraits mounted on frames that rotate in the wind—overlooking Otsego Lake

Cooperstown, NY — Danish photographer Marc Hom is recognized for his iconic portraits of some of the most recognized faces in the world. Over his decades-long career, he has artistically captured the likeness of Hollywood and cultural elites such as Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, King Frederik X of Denmark, and a seemingly endless list of notable names.

Marc Hom: Re-Framed is a summation of Hom’s work to date and a portrait of the artist’s restless mind. On view from May 25–September 2, 2024 at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, the new exhibition offers visitors two components. The first resembles a traditional gallery retrospective. The second brings Hom’s work into a wilder space—the outdoors. Here his polished studio portraits are printed eleven feet high and mounted on Masonite frames that catch the weather, swiveling in the wind.

“From the moment I saw Marc Hom’s beautiful photographic work and became aware that he lived close by the museum, I wanted to showcase his photographs in our galleries,” said Dr. Paul S. D’Ambrosio, Fenimore Art Museum president and CEO. “Marc’s exhibition moves photography into new realms, coaxing us to follow along and giving us more freedom to explore the stunning images in our own ways. Fenimore is proud to share this groundbreaking new venture.”

Hom saw the exhibition as a chance to push against the conventions of a traditional gallery retrospective. For years, he had been fascinated by sculpture gardens—most of all Storm King, the 500-acre outdoor museum of landscaped fields in New York’s Hudson Valley. There, he thought, was art that did not merely rest against the wall waiting for passing admiration; the pieces almost grab you as you walk among them. While experiencing the outdoor portion of Hom’s exhibition, visitors will make their way through 28 images of ageless elegance—Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Sofia Coppola, Cher—larger than life and perched in formation overlooking the pristine waters of Otsego Lake and its environs.

“I always loved the idea of being able to see art in all different kinds of situations,” said Marc Hom. “It’s one thing in the spring. It’s a different thing in the snow. It’s different in the rain, in the summer, in shadow, and in sun. So why don’t we try to combine the controlled environment of a so-called ordinary exhibition with the big open fields—a world completely uncontrolled?”

Marc Hom: Re-Framed is organized by Fenimore Art Museum. The exhibition is sponsored in part by Nellie and Robert Gipson and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Putnam. 

As a companion to the exhibition, Hom’s new book, “Re-Framed,” features the entire selection of portraiture on display and also details the development of the exhibition. The 160-page hard-cover is available exclusively at Fenimore Art Museum’s retail shop and on the museum’s website.

Visit FenimoreArt.org for more information.

Related Programming

For information on upcoming tours and programs, visit FenimoreArt.org.

About Fenimore Art Museum


Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, offers visitors the opportunity to experience a wide variety of world-class art in an idyllic, small-town setting. The museum features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org.

Additional Summer Exhibitions

Bob Dylan Remastered: Drawings from the Road
May 25 – September 15, 2024

Banksy: The Haight Street Rat
May 18 – September 8, 2024

American Masterworks
through December 29, 2024

As They Saw It: Women Artists Then & Now
through September 2, 2024

Museum Hours 
Open April 2–December 29, 2024. Summer hours begin May 25: open daily 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Museum admission is free for visitors 19 and under. Find more information at FenimoreArt.org.

About Marc Hom
Marc Hom, a Copenhagener, was born in 1967, a child of the postwar explosion of Scandinavian creativity and style. His father, Jesper, was an accomplished photographer as well. Hom moved from Copenhagen to New York in 1989 after completing his photographic degree at the Danish Art Academy. Working freelance for over a year with some of the most established photographers there, he then spent the next six month in Vienna, commissioned to do a book of images for the Vienna Ballet. Finalizing the project, Hom returned to New York and began working with the late Liz Tilberis and Fabian Baron of Harper’s Bazaar, which introduced him to the world of fashion photography, a major turning point in his career.

Marc Hom is now recognized as one of the most iconic portrait photographers in the world. He is renowned for photographing some of the most talented, influential, and innovative individuals of our time. Celebrity portraits include Cher, Aretha Franklin, Alexander McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Vanessa Redgrave, Glen Close, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson and many more. He is a regular contributor to Esquire, Entertainment Weekly and Town & Country. Marc has photographed multiple fashion campaigns for Gucci, Patek Philippe and Boss while some of his entertainment clients include Netflix, Showtime, and Amazon.

He is currently based in New York City.

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Interviews:

Marc Hom is available for interviews. Please contact to schedule.

Media contact:

Todd Kenyon
Director of Marketing and Communications

(607) 547-1472

pr@fenimoreart.org

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May 1 (UPI) — Roadside Attractions is giving a glimpse of the new film Lee.

The studio shared a trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Kate Winslet as model-turned-photographer and World War II war correspondent Lee Miller.

Lee is based on the biography The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose. The film “portrays a pivotal decade” in the life of Miller, whose “singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century’s most indelible images of war.”

“Miller had a profound understanding and empathy for women and the voiceless victims of war. Her images display both the fragility and ferocity of the human experience,” an official synopsis reads. “Above all, the film shows how Miller lived her life at full throttle in pursuit of the truth, for which she paid a huge personal price, forcing her to confront a traumatic and deeply buried secret from her childhood.”

Josh O’Connor, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Marion Cotillard also star.

Lee is written by Liz Hannah, Marion Hume and John Collee, and marks the feature directorial debut of Ellen Kuras.

The film opens in theaters Sept. 27.

Winslet most recently starred in the HBO miniseries The Regime.

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Fujifilm‘s House of Photography based in Covent Garden, London has been closed for refurbishment but it won’t be long until the newly renovated store and event space is reopened to the public. 

In honor of the grand reopening, scheduled on May 31, 2024, Fujifilm has launched a photography competition with the chance to win one of the best Fujifilm cameras on the market, and cash prizes for 2nd and 3rd place. Exclusively open to residents of the UK, the Life as You See It competition invites all levels of photographers to enter up to 5 images that represent how they see life. 

Fujifilm states, “Photography is the most accessible form of self-expression there is, and we’d love to explore how you see the world through your lens.”

Entries to the competition will not solely be judged on technical prowess, as the judges are looking for the emotion behind the image and the reason why entrants (perhaps you?) decided to click the shutter button. 

The competition winner will receive the recently released Limited edition version of the Fujifilm X100VI, worth £1,934, with 2nd place winning a £500 Fujfilm House of Photography store credit voucher, and 3rd place winning a £250 voucher.

All three winners will have their photos exhibited in the Fujifilm House of Photography gallery and feature in a new Fujifilm brand film. The film will premiere on June 28 at the Fujifilm House of Photography, with the winners announced on the same day. The top 50 entries will also be featured in the film, so lots of reasons for you to enter.

Located in Covent Garden, London, the freshly refurbished Fujifilm House of Photography will reopen to the public on May 31, 2024, and be a creative hub for all things Fujifilm. The grand reopening will launch with a program of immersive events, as well as refreshed facilities and services.

The new space will include a redesigned print workshop, a Fujifilm School learning space, an extended gallery space, a dedicated area for the GFX and X Series camera range, an Instax creator booth, plus many more fun and exciting things to experience. 

The competition is open now until June 14 and is a fantastic opportunity to get your images seen in the brand-new Fujifilm UK hub.

See our guides for more information on the best Fujifilm cameras, the best Fujifilm lenses, and the best compact cameras. 

The world-famous V&A – or the Victoria & Albert Museum in London – has revealed the recipients of the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, now in its second year. The Prize was established to identify, support, and elevate women artists, and is a key component of the broader V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project. 

The four winners of the Prize; Aisha Seriki, Mia Weiner, Nancy Floyd, and Silvia Rosi will all showcase their work at Peckham 24, a dynamic week-long contemporary photography festival in South London, opening on Friday, May 17, 2024.

In collaboration with Peckham 24, this prize aims to amplify the voices of women, celebrate diversity, and advance equality in the arts. It has been made possible by the generous support of Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and The Parasol Foundation Trust, which actively empowers women across science, health, heritage, and the arts.

This year, the Prize attracted over 1,400 submissions from artists globally, spanning established and emerging talents, and offering a compelling panorama of contemporary photographic approaches. Submissions showcased innovative interpretations of the theme ‘Histories’, prompting artists to explore the interplay between history and photography, delve into historical techniques and archives, and envision reimagined or speculative futures.

The four artists were selected by the V&A’s external prize selection committee, co-chaired by Fiona Rogers, the inaugural Parasol Foundation Curator of Women in Photography at the V&A, and Vivienne Gamble, co-founder of Peckham 24. Joining them were Bruno Ceschel, founder and director of Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH), Dr. Zoé Whitley, director of Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Deborah Willis, professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Of the winners, the selection committee said: ‘

These four artists brilliantly demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the theme ‘Histories’, capturing the concept with diverse and sophisticated visual approaches. Drawing on performative self-portraiture and studio techniques, each artist interrogates personal and social narratives, including the history of photography itself. Through their work, they offer compelling insights into the complexities of the past and its enduring influence on the present.’

The Winners:

Aisha Olamide Seriki is a Nigerian, London-based multimedia artist pursuing an MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Grounded by the principles of Ìṣẹ̀ṣe (Yorùbá Spiritual Tradition), her work uses photo-manipulation techniques to explore the relationships between photography and the self. 

Influenced by the concept of Orí (a Yorùbá reference to one’s spiritual destiny) Seriki’s series Orí Inú investigates the history of photographic ‘keepsakes’, drawing on the metaphor of the calabash and the comb as cultural symbols of African diasporan histories, empowerment, ritual and self-care.

Nancy Floyd is an American artist raised in Texas and based in Oregon. Weathering Time is an ongoing series of environmental self-portraits which began in 1982 when Floyd was just 25 years old. 

40 years later, this ‘visual calendar’ now comprises 2500 photographs which reflect the artist’s personal experience of aging whilst also reflecting on the cultural, technological, and physical changes that have occurred over the past forty years.

Silvia Rosi works with photography, text, and moving image to explore ideas of memory, migration, and diaspora. Born in Italy and living and working between the UK and Togo, Rosi’s practice is inspired by West African studio photography and the artist’s Togolese heritage. 

Her series Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense combines photography and video to explore the artist’s connection to Mina, a Togolese language regulated by colonial rule.  

Responding to historical textiles, Los Angeles-based artist Mia Weiner creates hand-woven tapestries that explore mythology, identity, gender, and queerness, reflecting on personal relationships, memory, and the body. 

In Sirens, Weiner interrogates how the human figure has been represented in art history and in particular how female subjects have often been depicted as objects. Working with her own body along with other female, non-binary, and intersex models, Weiner explores how figurative representation can hold power and agency.

The V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project is a major new programme celebrating the achievements of women in photography, spanning a curatorial position, acquisitions, research, education, and public displays.

Ruth Parasol is its Principal Benefactress giving much of her time as one of the Trustee Directors, guiding grant-making, continuing to fund the Trust with her additional money, and her private family office providing administrative and investment support.